What year did you first start gaming on the PC Engine/Turbografx??

[DJLobo]

I picked up a TG16 w/CD add-on back in '06, but I knew all about the Turbo growing up. I saw ads for Splatterhouse and Vigilante in the back of comic books I had in the early 90's along with reading about it in EGM. I do remember trying to convince my parents to pick one up when it being discounted, but they wouldn't spring for another system. (My brother and I already had a NES & SNES) I even tried to convince my Mom that Ys I & II would work on the SNES.  I had forgotten about it for some time until I found an old advertisement for the Super System Card in my room. Must have saved it for some reason. Glad I did.

[blueraven]

1989.  I went to my friends houses when I was younger in the 80's and 90's (2 actually, that had turbos) because I couldn't afford one. Most of my gaming was done in the Kiosk at Software, Etc. in the Mall, the Babbages TG Kiosk, and the system they had setup in Toys R US.

I didn't own my first Turbo Duo until 1999 or 2000, purchased on eBay for $100. It was sold in 2003 for $250 to make rent. In 2006 I got back in with a broken PCE Duo, lurking here until early 2008 when I started posting after it broke.

The rest is history

[pixeljunkie]

Bought a friends TG-16 and game collection from him back in '90, the next year i got the CD add-on...My friend had gotten a Duo when they came out. I sold my original TG-16 hardware and conned him into later selling me his Duo. I still have all my original games from the time as well. I now use a region modded Duo-R. There has never been a moment since 1989-90 that I haven't been playing TG/PCE in some form or fashion.

[Starfighter]

I started 2009. I bought a loose coregrafx at an insane price.. (with delivery fees and customs it landed on about $180)

[Official Ninja]

I purchased my TG-16 at launch. Purchased the CD add-on at launch, and the super system card too.
I have always been a huge fan of the TG-16 and used to argue A LOT with my little brother who was a "me too" Genesis fan boy. I had mostly every US release that came out, including the CD games. Eventually as he got older my brother also started to realize how great the TG-16 was. We imported a couple games, Spriggan and a couple purple adapters to play Parodius and another import I can't remember. Eventually I moved out of my house, married and had kids. My Turbo collection stayed at my parents house. As it turned out my little brother continued to use it. Turns out he thought I didn't care about it anymore, sold a few games. Worst part of this story is he had all the games in a box in his car trunk. He was driving on I-287 at night and blew out a tire. When he got to the shoulder to change to the spare he opened the trunk and in the process of getting the spare out spilled the games all over the side of the road, in the street and the grass. Pitch black, he put what he could back in the box, changed his tire and got out of there. (its not exactly safe on the shoulder of I-287).

Fast forward a few years to like 1997 maybe, I had the gaming itch again. I went to get all my stuff from my parents house (including a NEOGEO AES and games! but thats another forum) I was disappointed to find most of my games gone. However all the hardware was there and most the CD games. I than purchased a few more base systems from ebay, a also got a NIB Turbo Express from telegames. I still have about 20 hucard games. My son maybe 5 years old at the time LOVED the Magical Dinosaur tour.

My CD-ROM drive had the gear go bad about 5 years ago. I really want to get another drive unit to use my CD system again. Right now I'm using emulation on the PC with a real turbo-pad. I have all these CD games, a Super System card and no system to use it all with because of damn gear.

So, now my little brother is also grown up and has his wife and kids and was bitten with the same gaming bug. He recently purchased a Super Grafx and I was playing that a few days ago. Awesome.
 

[Vecanti]

Right after Christmas 1990.  I had never even heard of the TurboGrafx.  I had money after Christmas so I was going to go buy a Genesis($129 I think), but my friend told me I need to get a TurboGrafx.  I was like what the hell is that?  Then I went to the store and saw one ($149) and saw the HuCards and I bought it.

One of the better decisions I've made.  I had a Nintendo Power from 1989 and on the back cover it had an ad for the Turbo, but I never even noticed it until after I bought one. 

[benevicious]

2011 will be when I start gaming on a real PC engine.

As a kid the TG-16 was way out of our price range so we were a sega/nintendo household. I started hearing about the PC engine again on shooter forums and kept it in the back of my mind.

After spending some time with an emulator I decided I need to start collecting/playing this system. I have a stack of Hucards ready and waiting (Download, Final Soldier etc), and will be picking up one of those nice RGB Duo-r's after the new year .

Also, by then I should have my arcade stick modded to work with any kind of system via rj-45. Should make for a great January.

[Joe Redifer]

1991 for me, about May of 1991 in fact when I graduated high school.  I had rented the Turbo console one or two times before that and a friend of mine owned the console and the CD unit, but that doesn't count.

[TR0N]

Early 90's rental place nuff said.

[JapanTokei]

1989 - played the PCE at friends houses while I lived in Taipei, Taiwan
1990 - drooled at the US version, aka TG16       gamed on a US SMS to get me by.
1991 - TG16 purchased.  Xmas 1991 - CD addrom received from my awesome mommy.  bought Sherlock Holmes with it.
1992 - january - mom brings back Super System Card from a taiwan trip.  I ended up waiting 3 months to get a Purple barney delivered from some EGM mag ad shop.  Gate of Thunder in full force!
1993 - moved onto the PC
1995 - sold everything on the Turbolist or the Turbopages (dont recall the site exactly)

1995 - 2008 - life takes over.

2009 - got the itch, bought boxed PCE DUOR at Tokyo on a business trip.  Then a SCD addon loosey. 
2010 - full redemption of the time-lost, slowly and steadily get everything back and then some 

[turbogrfxfan]

2011 will be when I start gaming on a real PC engine.

As a kid the TG-16 was way out of our price range so we were a sega/nintendo household. I started hearing about the PC engine again on shooter forums and kept it in the back of my mind.

After spending some time with an emulator I decided I need to start collecting/playing this system. I have a stack of Hucards ready and waiting (Download, Final Soldier etc), and will be picking up one of those nice RGB Duo-r's after the new year .

Also, by then I should have my arcade stick modded to work with any kind of system via rj-45. Should make for a great January.

awesome!!!  hope you enjoy that duo r.  def the right choice of a system.  the rx is good too but for the money duo r is the way to go.  you should prolly pick up an ave 6, 6 button controllers as well. dont forget to pick up an arcade card so u could play all cd games.  if ya have any questions lemme or anyone know cause were all cool here and willing to help out!!

[TurbografxKid]

I'm not sure what year it was. I was stuck in front of the TV playing my Turbo Grafx 16. 
I do know that it was before the Turbo Duo came out. I was waiting for and anticipating the launch of the Duo. I was reading about the Duo in video game magazines and drooling all over them. That is when I was not playing the TG16.

I walked into a Toys-R-Us to purchase my TG16. And I still have the 19" Sanyo CRT that I used and I am still playing the TG16 on it!

[kenomac78]

92. could only get 1 system per year and so when it hit $50 it was easy to convince mom!

[goombakid]

I got my TG16 on March 29, 1991. I still had a label I made the day I bought it in that extension bay cover! I actually remember throwing a fit because I couldn't get it the first time around. When they added Bonk's Adventure in as a pack-in game, I was able to come up with part of the money so my mom would shell out the rest.

I still can remember playing Bonk for hours on end, trying to find every single secret in the game.

I've been trying for the longest to get the CD attachment to it, but finally gave up and just got a PCE Duo just recently. 

[Lilgrafx]

I just recently picked mine up about six months ago. I'm a bit younger than most people here as I grew up with the 64. I learned about the system through spida1a and Happy console gamer, I instantly fell in love with the system. It just has a charm that makes it so fun to collect and play for.